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by HardyLeung 4142 days ago
It is a balance between playability and automation. Even minesweeper does that (auto deduce that a large region can be opened up). What I described is only the first-order "convenience" checking to avoid the pain of going way back because of a miscounting.

Regarding the hint button. I don't want to use it precisely because I don't want to "win" by repeatedly getting hints.